The squirting cucumber shoots its seeds so fast that scientists had to use techniques like high-speed videography to record ...

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Old Roman Era Clifftop Beach House With 360-Degree Island View Discovered, Used for Strategic Military Purposes Workers ...

Solder, lawyer and writer, Pliny the Elder’s (23 – 79 AD) research into the natural world formed the basis of scientific authority for centuries to come. He died during the eruption of Mount ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny's account is the ...

Pliny's World offers readers a translation of the Natural History's opening books unprecedented for its completeness, accuracy and accessibility. Here, in quirky, often breathless style, Pliny lays ...

Pliny The Elder once wrote of elephants: "Of all other living creatures, they cannot abide a mouse or a rat." Elephants being ...

For 14 years, scientists have been growing a tree akin to the Judean balsam — the source of the balm of Gilead — but with no ...

Pliny the Elder. "On the 24th of August, about one in the afternoon, my mother desired him to observe a cloud..." he wrote in a letter to Tacitus, a Roman senator and historian, about the events ...

His own father died when Pliny was still very young and he was adopted by his uncle, Pliny the Elder. This was clearly a life-changing experience, but one that was common to most Romans.

It’s also the last full moon before the Winter Solstice, which falls on Dec. 21. Other names for this month’s full moon: the ...